What time do you start clinical?

NightOwlGirl · Jun 19, 2012

6:30am -- 2:30pm, one day per week.

Which means getting to the hospital by 6am (if not 5:45am), leaving my house by 5:15am (20 min commute, in good traffic) & getting up around 4am to shower, dress, apply makeup, etc...

I am a natural (extreme) night owl who would go to sleep at sunrise, if I had any say in the matter, so this is NOT my preferred schedule. :)

I would give anything for 2-8pm clinicals & afternoon/evening classes.

Stephalump · Jun 19, 2012

6:30am -- 2:30pm, one day per week.
Which means getting to the hospital by 6am (if not 5:45am), leaving my house by 5:15am (20 min commute, in good traffic) & getting up around 4am to shower, dress, apply makeup, etc...
I am a natural (extreme) night owl who would go to sleep at sunrise, if I had any say in the matter, so this is NOT my preferred schedule. :)
I would give anything for 2-8pm clinicals & afternoon/evening classes.

On the plus side, that's only 8 hours! I'm not a morning person, but it would be great to e done that early! I'm 6:30-6:30 :-/

Bojamashell · Jun 19, 2012

My clinicals are from 2:30pm to 10:30pm on Saturdays (some Fridays too).

Fiona59 · Jun 27, 2012

My ADN clinical this semester starts at 7am, but if I want to look at charts, I need to get there around 6:30am. It makes care planning that much easier when you give yourself 30 minutes before pre-conference to check out the chart!

Don't be touching charts on my unit at 0630! Nights are still charting and the residents are looking at them!

katiebear · Jun 27, 2012

Med Surg days start at 5:30! We're morning people.

DichloroacetateAl · Jun 27, 2012

For my first clinical placement, I started clinicals at 7:00 a.m; for my second clinical placement, I started clinicals at 2:00 p.m.

nomsa · Jun 28, 2012

5;30 med surge eish! waking up @ 4:am

abiklags · Jul 5, 2012

all semesters (except the capstone) start nice and late apparently, at 8am. ending times vary by semester. capstone is 12 hr shifts so its either 7a-7p or 7p-7a, being there 15 min early for report. i did nights and LOVED it, even though by nature I'm an early bird.

Swellz · Jul 5, 2012

Morning first morning clinical instructor required we be there at 6:45am, but another didn't care if we weren't there til 7:15. Maybe it was because it was the weekend and she didn't want to be awake that early either LOL. I also had an evening clinical that started at 1 or 2, I forget.

aachavez · Jul 5, 2012

0600-1800. I (like many have stated) am NOT a morning person. I will need to get one of these for sure....

PatMac10,RN, RN · Jul 7, 2012

It is according to which rotation we're doing. For newborn nursery and L&D this summer we had to be there at 5:45 bc we hand to change into that units specific scrubs do to dealing with newborns and trying to decrease the risk of transmission of pathogenic microorganisms that may be on our normal uniform.

Every other hospital rotation we have to be there by 6:30am. For rotations in clinics and the health department we don't have to be there til 8, but if course we leave later.

BloomNurseRN, ASN, BSN, RN · Jul 8, 2012

We start at 7:00 but are always advised to be there about 10-15 minutes early to get settled. We shouldn't be running in the door a 7:00 but rather have our coats off and be ready to receive our patient assignment. Of course all I'm doing is fantasizing about gallons of coffee! LOL! :-)